Job Description

We have an excellent opportunity for a senior mental health pharmacist to join our Living Well & Access Teams in Stockport. You will work the Living Well & Access Team as a prescriber and be responsible for developing the clinical pharmacy service and medication related pathway within your borough. There is no dispensary or out of hours commitment providing the perfect opportunity for you to develop your clinical skills and broaden your mental health knowledge and experience.



To provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the Living Well and Access Teams across your borough.



To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate specialist clinical mental health pharmacy services in the Living Well Team.



To provide expert pharmaceutical advice and liaison to the Living Well Team, GPs, practice pharmacists, other healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and carers.



To lead on the non-medical prescribing pathway and act as an independent prescriber of medication, ensuring that drug therapy is evidence based, safe, cost effective and appropriate to the individual patient.



To provide training to the Living Well Team, GPs and other HCPs within Primary Care around the use of psychotropic medicines.



To ensure that pharmacy services work within agreed guidelines to ensure effective medicines management



To provide cover for other pharmacists providing a service to and employed by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, as requested.



You will work within a multi-disciplinary Living Well & Access Team within your borough . You will also be supported by a lively clinical pharmacy team who are dedicated to delivering excellent services and cover community services, assessment services, specialist services and inpatient services. You will receive clinical and and management supervision and have opportunities to develop yourself and the role through education, training, team meetings and opportunities such as Quality Improvement and audit. You will be supported to undertake further qualifications as needed . The role is entirely clinical with no dispensary, out of hours or on call commitment



You will provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the Living Well and Access Teams across Stockport; the main responsibilities are covered in the job description